A fine long shawl woven pivot with a narrow black serpentine centre, flanked at either end with three scrolling cones, one interlocking with the other side beneath the black centre, within a border of scrolling cones and upside down prayer arch shapes--64 x 136in. (160 x 340cm.), circa 1867, after a design by Berrus, French, slight repair

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A fine long shawl woven pivot with a narrow black serpentine centre, flanked at either end with three scrolling cones, one interlocking with the other side beneath the black centre, within a border of scrolling cones and upside down prayer arch shapes--64 x 136in. (160 x 340cm.), circa 1867, after a design by Berrus, French, slight repair
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Lot Essay

The shawl was probably woven for the Universal Exhibition of 1867. See "The Kashmir Shawl and its Indo-French Influence", Frank Ames, 1997, p. 207.

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